{"id":89706,"date":"2022-08-03T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=89706"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:40:58","slug":"chilean-farmers-toss-out-produce-to-protest-miserable-profits-high-cost-of-inputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/blog\/2022\/08\/03\/chilean-farmers-toss-out-produce-to-protest-miserable-profits-high-cost-of-inputs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Farmers Toss Out Produce To Protest Miserable Profits, High Cost of Inputs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aug.\u00a01 (EIRNS)\u2014Tomato farmers in the northern Chilean city of Arica protested the high price of fertilizer and other inputs by tossing their tomatoes all over Route 5 North highway on July 11, cutting off all transit on the road for several hours. Producers told <em>ADN<\/em> radio that between what they have to pay for inputs and the low price they receive from merchants, it\u2019s impossible to earn a decent profit. So, they reasoned, they wouldn\u2019t be losing much by tossing the tomatoes onto the highway and blocking traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is generalized discontent among Chilean farmers, as seen in testimony given by several producers who addressed the Senate Agriculture Commission on May 16 to document their situation. Drought is a huge problem for farmers, compounded by the high price of inputs, lack of fertilizer, etc. In many drought-stricken areas, producers are forced to fire their workers and stop exporting because production of quality produce is impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One producer, who had farmed for 30 years, warned the Senators that Chilean agriculture is facing a crisis, and that the nation\u2019s food security is in jeopardy. And, he said, the problem isn\u2019t just national, but global. This is an emergency, he stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug.\u00a01 (EIRNS)\u2014Tomato farmers in the northern Chilean city of Arica protested the high price of fertilizer and other inputs by tossing their tomatoes all over Route 5 North highway on July 11, cutting off all transit on the road for several hours. Producers told ADN radio that between what they have to pay for inputs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":89707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667,520,31,505,632],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-89706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-updates-development","category-updates-environmentalism","category-updates","category-green-new-deal","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89717,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89706\/revisions\/89717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}